*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: - William Avery Bot 6 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_6. Task/s: Increment Shakeosphere person ID by 24638, as discussed at WD:RBOT § Shakeosphere person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Shakeosphere_person_ID - Crystal-bot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Crystal-bot. Task/s: Add MediaWiki page ID (P9675) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9675 and language of work or name (P407) qualifiers to items using Moegirlpedia ID (P5737) identifier. - William Avery Bot 5 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/William_Avery_Bot_5. References to facts stated in The Database of Victims of the Nazi Persecution (Q104074149) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104074149 that use reference URL (P854) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P854 will be changed to to use Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9109, as requested at d:Wikidata:Bot requests#reference URL (P854) → Holocaust.cz person ID (P9109) (2021-02-05) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#reference_URL_(P854)_→_Holocaust.cz_person_ID_(P9109)_(2021-02-05) - OJSOptimetaCitationsBot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/OJSOptimetaCitationsBot. Add citation and author data for publications in journals hosted in Open Journal Systems https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- Upcoming - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group call June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM5fWZcQpvn4rA_olx4aNIp6DQjX2DV-LLgSY1Qm98A/edit# - Live editing session on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/belett, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2) - Ongoing - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #46, Cartography https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=46 - Past - 'Mind Your Manors' https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-your-manors-medieval-hack-weekend-tickets-293300027277 Medieval Hack Weekend (UK National Archives / York Centre for Medieval Studies), June 11-12. Included some useful Wikidata linkage https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1536121787263725568.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Blogs - Wikibase.cloud: a new project at Wikimedia Deutschland https://tech-news.wikimedia.de/en/2022/06/03/wikibase-cloud-a-new-project-at-wikimedia-deutschland/ - 50,000 video games on Wikidata https://commonists.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/50000-video-games-on-wikidata/ by Jean-Frédéric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric - The Current Version of Popular Browsers API (powered by Wikidata) https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/latest-browser-versions-api.html - Wikidata, a free collaborative knowledge database https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/mundu-digitala/wikidata-ezagutzarako-datu-base-libre-kolaboratibo/ (in Basque) - Papers - A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4 - WikidataComplete – An easy-to-use method for rapid validation of text-extracted new facts applied to the Wikidata knowledge graph https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pd_Guo_et_al_paper_206.pdf - Videos - Dagbani Wikipedia Saha Episode 5: Introduction to Wikidata (in Dagbanli) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWs69F8QWVA - LIVE Wikidata editing #83 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MD8scGSS8 - Wikiba.se ... an Free and Open Source Software, originally developed to run on Wikipedia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplqB_DIoL0 - Wikidata Lab XXXIV: OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8bDtO4cq8 - Generating Gene Sets for Transcriptomics Analysis Using Wikidata - Part 2 (in Portuguese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOCMj7-PxI - A walk through Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGpfuShLrI - Demographic profiling in Wikipedia Wikidata WikiCite & Scholia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9tb-RWmaM - DSI Webinar - Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLGci9II30 - How does Wikidata store data? How to contribute Data to Wikidata? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbZoYMi3pM - Generate MindMap from Wikidata using SPARQL query - YouTube (En https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKA4pVZMOEo, [De https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc8C77lgrtw) - FAIR and Open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGhH3ysuzeQ - The Italian libraries magazines on Wikidata - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v5jgwXlqOM - Wikidata Testimonials - Giovanna Fontenelle (Wikimedia Foundation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg - Frédéric Julien (Director of Research and Development CAPACOA)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PqG9Ul4Zr0&t=3s (in French) - Nathalie Thibault (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1kRiRlBgg (in French) - Michael Gasser (ETH Bibliothek Zürich) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6mOeAAUBA8 (in German)
Tool of the week
- ExtraInterwiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Enhance_user_interface#ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New Wikibase.cloud project status update page has been created! https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikibase-cloud@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GMCJQLEBKEURMODIJ7AWD2FJJRLJ3WEO/ - Qichwabase https://qichwa.wikibase.cloud is a Wikibase instance curating Quechua lexicographical data, for later integration into Wikidata - Using Wikidata search API in Observable https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wikidata-search-api by PAC2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2 - Explore Wikidata using Observable https://observablehq.com/collection/@pac02/wikidata, a collection of notebooks in Observable to explore Wikidata, by PAC2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2. - Programming languages on Wikidata https://observablehq.com/@johnsamuelwrites/programming-languages-on-wikidata in Observable by Jsamwrites https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jsamwrites, based on examples by PAC2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2 (see above) - New Mix'n'match function: Unmatched biographical entries grouped by exact birth and death date. Currently ~33k "groups" available https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1534102853572341760
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: orchestrator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10806 - External identifiers: Championat ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10800, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10801, Esports Earnings game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10802, Esports Earnings player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10803, Twitter list ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10804, Museum of Gothenburg object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P10805 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: inker https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/inker, penciller https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/penciller, KFCB classification (Kenya) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/KFCB_classification_(Kenya), Miljørapporter File ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Milj%C3%B8rapporter_File_ID, plural forms https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/plural_forms - External identifiers: ifwizz ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ifwizz_ID, IRIS Abruzzo IDs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IRIS_Abruzzo_IDs, Great Plant Picks ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Great_Plant_Picks_ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Case ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Survey_of_Scottish_Witchcraft_-_Case_ID, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/The_Encyclopedia_of_Fantasy_ID, Kultboy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Kultboy, Atom Package Manager name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Atom_Package_Manager_name, ZineWiki ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ZineWiki_ID, Broadway World person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Broadway_World_person_ID, Yamaha Artists ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yamaha_Artists_ID - Query examples: - Thomas Telford's different alleged associations with buildings, according to wikidata statements https://w.wiki/5FrF (source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534643745437765636) - Averages of coordinates of depicted place (P9149) positions for Commons categories https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jheald/Scotland/bridges/average_Commons_coordinates (useful as help in matching them to wikidata items) (source https://twitter.com/heald_j/status/1533939286999019521) - items with senses in the most languages on Wikidata https://w.wiki/5GMW, with a sample language and lexeme in that language. - Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games https://w.wiki/5F$m (source https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/1535256175943589889) - A & B roads carried on Scottish bridges https://w.wiki/5Fjy ( source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1534704886306197507) - Timeline of Rafael Nadal awards and nominations https://w.wiki/5Fio (source https://twitter.com/jmcollado/status/1534654806056488960) - Articles studying chemicals from the oceans https://w.wiki/5FhN ( source https://twitter.com/TheLOTUSInitia1/status/1534579229685436416) - Municipalities of France, by their population and their altitude https://w.wiki/5GrL (source https://twitter.com/slaettaratindur/status/1536330112009895937) - In cousin marriages (born 1800 and later) https://w.wiki/5GpK ( source https://twitter.com/perstar/status/1536299902480826368) - Actors who played the same real politician the most times https://w.wiki/5GvW (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1536042914287075328) - Most famous heritage locations (measured by sitelinks) https://w.wiki/5GDV (source https://twitter.com/lubianat/status/1535360235258380288)
Development
- Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306214) - Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307869) - REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306667)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items . - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next